• Ghast
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    2 years ago

    I’d say ‘no’, and that this is a category error (like asking what the colour of ‘up’ is).

    If I owned by body, I could legally sell it, but I can’t sell it, and wouldn’t want any legal structure allowing people to sell their body-parts. I think bodies aren’t the kinds of things one can own.

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      2 years ago

      I could legally sell it, but I can’t sell it

      You sure? There are countries where people choose to legally sell their bodies once they die. Universities for example buy them for study purposes

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      2 years ago

      It is not that simple. There are some of things that one can own but that is illegal to sell in some countries. Drugs for example. You can own the pills you take, without having the right to sell them. And on the other hand worker kind of “sell” (or at least “rent”) their bodies.